The Metropolitan Automobile Guide. A Selection of Short Trips from New York to Nearby Shore, Hill and Lake Resorts Grouped According to Length into Six Sections

Henry MacNair

The Automobile Blue Book Publishing Co., 1912

Octavo, 19 cm. xi, 547 pp.; ill., maps. 24 cm. Black leather, gilt embossed title background to front wrap. Front wrap torn and detached. Rubbing, chip loss to front corner. Clean and unmarked pages. The Automobile Blue Book (established in 1901) was an American series of road guides for motoring travellers in the United States and Canada. Hartford businessman and automobile enthusiast Charles Howard Gillette initiated the series. By the 1910s, it became "the standard publication" of its type.